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Blinn College Brings ‘Biloxi Blues’ to The Brenham Stage

The Blinn College - Brenham campus theatre arts program will tell the story of a 20-year-old sent to World War II basic training in the semi-autobiographical play “Biloxi Blues.”

Curtain times are 7 p.m. Feb. 21- 23 and 2 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Dr. W.W. O’Donnell Performing Arts Center (map<http:// www.blinn.edu/map%20details/ index.htm>). Tickets are free for Blinn faculty, staff and administrators, and students receive two free tickets with their College ID. General admission is $5. Advance tickets are available at the O’Donnell Center box office: 979-830-4024.

“Biloxi” is the second installation in Neil Simon’s Eugene trilogy that began with “Brighton Beach Memoirs” and concluded with “Broadway Bound,” portraying the misadventures of Eugene Morris Jerome as he goes through basic training in Biloxi, Miss.

“You see the fear they deal with,” said Theatre Arts Director Bradley Nies, who directs the play. “Everything is based around the fact that all these young men are scared to death and they’re finding ways to overcome their fear.”

The Blinn chapters of Delta Psi Omega and the U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology will join with the First United Methodist Church Children’s Ministry to collect items at the door to send to a family in Afghanistan. Items needed include: travel-sized toiletries, razors, baby wipes, candy, beef jerky, granola bars, trail mix, nuts, powdered drink mixes and entertainment items such as magazines, books and puzzle books.

The play is the third performance in Blinn’s 2012-13 theatre season, “An American Year.” The season kicked off with “Enron” in October and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in November, and will conclude with “An Evening of Tennessee Williams” in April.

Blinn’s theatre arts program offers a quality educational foundation through study, application and experience. For more information, visit www.blinn.edu/finearts/ theatre.html.